SNAPP: Combined forces key to efforts against student hunger at UP

Posted on May 21, 2024

Students facing food insecurity continue to receive support from UP’s Student Nutrition and Progress Programme (SNAPP), which provides a basic food allowance to students from underprivileged backgrounds who have limited financial means.

Beyond Boundaries: Fully online public health diploma helps Mavis van Wyk boost healthcare skills

Posted on May 20, 2024

"My passion for public health motivated me to sign up for the UPOnline programme," Mavis van Wyk (53) says about going “back to school” for the fully online Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Public Health.

‘Economic growth is not enough, we need transformation,’ says Tito Mboweni at the launch of the African Transformation Index (ATI)

Posted on May 20, 2024

UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences in collaboration with African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) hosted the launch of the African Transformation Index. The Index will be used as a tool used to measure the progress of African countries in relation to economic...

UP EXPERT OPINION: SA at 30 years: home and abroad

Posted on May 20, 2024

"There has been some impressive socioeconomic transformation over the past three decades," writes UP's Professor Adekeye Adebajo in a recent article with Business Day

High school learners from across SA sign up for free ‘extra classes’ from UP’s JuniorTukkie Online

Posted on May 20, 2024

SUPPORT FOR HIGH SCHOOL LEARNERS: Almost 18,000 South African high school learners from across the country – and increasingly also their teachers – are making use of the 85GB of free study and subject support provided by UP’s JuniorTukkie Online platform.

Celebrating World Breastmilk Donation Day: A Vital Initiative to Combat Infant Mortality

Posted on May 19, 2024

The South African Breastmilk Reserve (SABR), in partnership with the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Pretoria, hosted a special event to celebrate International Breastmilk Donation Day on May 19th. This day underscores the vital, life-saving role of breastmilk donation, especially...

UP nutrition and food security prof appointed to high-level UN panel

Posted on May 17, 2024

UP’s Professor Hettie Schönfeldt is the only South African appointed to a 15-member UN panel on nutrition and food security.

UP EXPERT OPINION: A vaccine against HIV: Why giving up hope is not an option

Posted on May 17, 2024

Theresa Rossouw is a UP professor of immunology, and has been treating patients living with HIV and researching the body’s response to the virus for more than two decades. She outlines the importance of World AIDS Vaccine Day.